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The Miller Experiment: A Key to Understanding Life’s Origins and its importance for PROTOS

Seventy years ago, American scientist Stanley Miller designed his famous "primordial soup" experiment, successfully recreating the foundations of Earth's first…

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Silica and the spark of life: new research reveals how protocells formed on early earth

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that protocells and prebiotic compounds…

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Strengthening Collaboration: Highlights from the Second PROTOS On-Site Meeting in Granada

The second PROTOS on-site meeting, organized in Granada (Spain) from November 27th to 29th, 2024, by the Spanish National Research…

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On the role of silica in the origin of life and primitive life detection

J.M. García-Ruiz1,2, W. Bach3, H. Coelfen4, M. van Zuilen5, R. Saladino6. E. di Mauro6, C. Jenewein2, B. M. Bizzarri6 1Donostia…

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The project

An artist’s vision of the Hadean era, the geochemical scenario of the origin of life that PROTOS will study /…

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Team Members

Prof. Juan Manuel García-Ruiz, Principal Investigator Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), his main fields of…

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